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Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

61 reviews

ktmcd26's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Don’t do the tandem read. The pace of this book is drastically different from Empire of Storms and this book suffers all the down falls. This book is scoped to fewer people and has more emotion driven changes. 

It has a few extremely satisfying reveals and a few “well duh” moments. Some of the big reveals were things that I thought were just basic knowledge gained in book 3.

I believe this book suffered for not allowing Choals gradual healing to be associated with his emotional healing. In one day he faced all his repeated patterns of emotional self-abuse. I’m not buying it.

Also a note on the series as a whole, I need more key characters killed to give this war some real stakes. And I need two people to hang out and grow together and not be a couple. Let them be friends, let people miss each other and have the heart grow fonder. Just mix it up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Vomit, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

jessversteeg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: War

sierrabowers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I think this book was a good addition to the throne of glass series, but it was definitely not the best one. If I hadn’t done the tandem read, it would have been dreadful. I think the only way people should read this book is in conjunction with empire of storms. The ending was not as enthralling as EOS but definitely gave me motivation to hurry into Kingdom of Ash!!!! I think the journey that Chaol went through emotionally and physically is very important and shows the strength of people who live with physical disabilities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abandonment, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Vomit, Medical content, Violence, Sexual content, War, and Sexual assault

sarahyjackson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Best SJM I have read to date. Loved the continued reflections on home, belonging, and identity and the introduction(ish) of healing (mind & body) as its own kind of hero’s journey and superpower.

Also best steam.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Blood, Sexism, and Ableism

Moderate: Vomit and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual violence

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i did this as part of a tandem read with empire of storm. i really enjoyed this book, despite it being placed directly after a book with a major cliffhanger. the tandem read absolutely helped with this, because i only had about 100 pages left to read of this rather than the whole of ToD. 

i really enjoyed seeing a new area that is so far detached from adarlan. the PoVs of both Chaol and Nesryn were good to see and i enjoyed meeting a lot of new characters. this provides a lot of context for things in empire of storm as well.

overall this book was great, just not as a follow up to empire of storm (unless done as a tandem read) because the events take place at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Murder, War, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and Suicide

nerdkitten's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Grief, Drug use, Violence, Vomit, and Ableism

Moderate: Stalking, Pregnancy, War, Racism, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Gore, Chronic illness, Classism, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Misogyny, Slavery, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Bullying, Death of parent, Murder, Suicide, and Xenophobia

beckyremillard's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

The beginning of this book dragged but it got better as it went. I did the tandem read (reading at the same time as Empire of Storms) and that helped a lot. I probably wouldn’t have finished this as quickly if it was all Chaol and Nesryn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, War, Vomit, Murder, and Gore

chuckielittle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Cursing, Grief, Violence, War, Ableism, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Infertility, Sexism, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, and Vomit

megreadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Although failed at my tandem read, I still suggest that you attempt it. It was difficult to balance and ultimately reading TOD was a bit of a struggle at times. The accelerated world building was difficult to process in contrast of the other continent having many books to develop the ins and outs. 

The last third of TOD captivated me, the sudden discoveries and the connection between the books held me unable to put my book down until I finished it. The pieces are all set in place for a grand finale that will undoubtedly leave me wrecked and in tears. And I cannot wait. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Vomit, War, Death, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

empower's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What a wonderful book. I really enjoyed my time in Antica with Chaol. The royal family of the Khaganate, especially Sartaq, were some of my favorite characters to get to know in the series. The court intrigue, the goings on if the Torre Cesme, the lurking evil, the Ruk riders, and the personal journey of healing are all part of what makes this book one of my favorites of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Medical content, Murder, and Vomit